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Great start into the ZEIT DEBATTEN season 2011/2012 for Berlin Debating Union. Their speakers Georg Sommerfeld, Patrick Ehmann and Johannes Häger won the ZEIT DEBATTE's final against Marco Niedermaier, Lukas Windhager and Almut Graebsch who were competing for Debattierclub München. Georg Sommerfeld was the best speaker of the final. The motion was: Do we need the United Staates of Europe? The final was completed by the free speakers Willy Witthaut (Mainz), Sven Hirschfeld (Heidelberg) and Irene Adamski (Halle). The finals' adjudicators: Pauline Leopold (Tübingen), Yin Cai (Heidelberg), Christoph Krakowiak (SK Berlin), Mario Dießner (SK Berlin), Leonid Vogel (Karlsruhe) and ...

New executive board for Debating Club Heidelberg: President is now Maren Popovic. Her deputy is Jan Ohmstedt, Robin Azinovic serves as treasurer.

This article is not available in English. Please read the German version to learn about how Patrick Ehmann loves trees. ...

Heidelberg calling: Debaters from all places on the German language debating circuit assemble by the river Neckar to compete for the title at German Nationals, or Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft (DDM). 45 Teams from 34 debating societies follow the call of Debating Club Heidelberg: Aachen, Bayreuth, Berlin, Bonn, Dortmund, Dresden, Frankfurt, Freiburg, Göttingen, Graz, Halle, Hamburg, Heidelberg, Ingolstadt, Jena, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Köln, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Mainz, Marburg, Mannheim, München, Münster, Potsdam, Salzburg, Stuttgart, St. Gallen, Tübingen, Wien and Zürich. Internationally speaking, the 11. DDM gets more attention than ever: Four societies from Austria and two from Switzerland will participate in the tournament held ...

We're sorry, this article is not available in English. Please got to the German version of this article to learn about how teams are allocated for DDM (German National, or Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft).

Registration for the German Debating Championship is open from now on! Debating societies which are members of VDCH (Verband der Debattierclubs an Hochschulen, engl. Association of Debating Societies at Universities) are allowed to register their teams for the biggest annual debating tournament in Germany. Teams from Germany itself, Switzerland, Austria and maybe even Italy are expected to participate. Registration details are published online, see www.ddm-heidelberg.de. The German Debating Championship will be staged in Heidelberg from 9 to 12 June 2011. Convenors are Jenny Holm, Kristina Seebacher, Till Kroeger and Daniel Sommer, the CA-team is formed by Tim Richter,  Gudrun Lux, Jan Lüken ...

Friendliness, lunch, recovery - and what Stefan Hübner, Franziskus Bayer and Tim Richter have to do with it. Twitter, losing one's voice, a huge deb soc and the audience's award of best speaker - and what Jenny Bachmann, Jenny Holm, Nicolas Eberle and Andrea Gau have to do with it. Please read Gudrun Lux' entertaining cover-up on the Western German regional - in Deutsch.

Please find here the cover-ups we have gathered for you on the German regionals. Please do not hesitate to read the German version of this article. There you may learn more on what the press writes about the Western German regional (WDM) as well as what debating societies like DK Wien and DC Freiburg have to say about this year's Southern German regional in Bayreuth. Oliver Hörtensteiner, the tabmaster of this year's Southern German regional put the tab of the competition online. You may also find the tab of WDM 2011 online. glx / apf ...

East, West and North have debated all day long in Halle, Frankfurt and Osnabrück to select the best debaters at German regional championships. Format of this year's regionals is OPD, or Offene Parlamentarische Debatte (open parliamentary debate). Achte Minute has all the results for you. ...

New executive board for Debating Club Heidelberg: President is now Till Kroeger who replaces Maike Jung. Till's deputy is Kristina Seebacher, Jennifer Marlene Holm serves as treasurer. Together with Daniel Sommer, they form the org comm for the German Debating Championship to be held in Heidelberg in June. ...

Heidelberg is going to be stage to the German Debating Championship (DDM) 2011, so many debaters in Germany see the Baden-Württembergian Open (BaWü) 2010 as a kind of dress rehearsal for DDM 2011. But superstitious minds in Germany have it that traditionally the dress rehearsal has to be a terrible disaster – if the real event shall be fine. However, neither the grouches nor the superstitious could find anything to mock about at BaWü 2010 last weekend. After Maike Jung, Jenny Holm and Kristina Seebacher organized the whole event smoothly, our reporter Gudrun Lux is really afraid that DDM 2011 ...

Bereits zum fünften Mal veranstaltete der Debating Club Heidelberg (DCH) am vergangenen Montag die Schulmeisterschaft im Debattieren der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar. In diesem Jahr traten Schülerinnen und Schüler im Alter von 15 bis 18 Jahren des Helmholtz Gymnasiums Heidelberg, des Johann Sebastian Bach Gymnasiums Mannheim, und des Theodor Heuss Gymnasiums Ludwigshafen, gegeneinander an. Ermöglicht wurde die Veranstaltung durch die Unterstützung der Heidelberger Außenstelle der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung (LpB) Baden-Württemberg, der Stadt Heidelberg, der Europa Union Heidelberg sowie der Europabeauftragten der Städte Heidelberg, Mannheim und Ludwigshafen. Bei den Schulmeisterschaften des DCH ...

Drei junge Frauen stehen dem Debating Club Heidelberg (DCH) seit 27. April vor. Die Mitgliederversammung des Vereins wählte die bisherige stellvertretende Vorsitzende Maike Jung zur Ersten Vorsitzenden. An ihrer Seite steht zukünftig die frischgebackene Süddeutsche Vizemeisterin Kristina Seebacher als Zweite Vorsitzende. Gemeinsam mit ihnen wird Jennifer Holm als Schatzmeisterin den Club leiten. Der DCH dankte den scheidenden Vorstandsmitgliedern Yin Cai und Stefan Bräumer für ihre hervorragende Arbeit im vergangenen Jahr. Dem neuen Vorstand herzlichen Glückwunsch! Viel Erfolg bei der Arbeit für den DCH, die Baden-Württembergische Meisterschaft 2010 und das Debattieren!